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In London, p. 574 — 597. The quantity which fell there in each month, and in the 
whole year, p, 598. 
Rats, and all forts of wild animals, eaten by the Battas of Sumatra, p. 168. 
Reeds , (bamboo), houfes built with them in the ifland of Sumatra, p. 162. How 
fome of the inhabitants write with them, p. 164. Ufed in their fortifications, p. 165, 
166. 
Refuge de Vrovoperg, Rue des Dominiquaines at Louvain, its latitude, p. 642, 643* 
Its longitude deduced from obfervations of Jupiter’s Satellites, p. 644. 
Regimen . On the antifeptic regimen of the natives of Ruffia, p. 622. See Anli/eptic 
Regimen . 
Report . Reafons for diftenting from the report of the committee appointed to confidcr 
of Mr. Wilfon’s experiments ; including remarks on fome experiments exhibited by 
Mr. Nairne, p. 801 — 822. 
Rhine , Sir William Hamilton’s account of certain traces of volcanos on its banks, p. 1. 
See Volcanos . 
Riheira Grande , a town in the ifland of St. Miguel, fome account of it, p. 603. 
Robins , Mr. concerning his new principles of gunnery, p. 50 — 52. 
Roman Roads , fuppofed to have been paved with lava from Vefuvius and the volcanos 
near Naples, p. 4. 
Rome , the proportionable number of inhabitants that die there annually, p. 144. 
Rooms , frnall ones unwholefome in difeafes, p. 199, 200. 204, 205. Bad effedt of 
nofe-gays in rooms, p. 209. 
Roxburgh , Mr. William, his meteorological diary, See. kept at Fort St. George in the 
Eaft Indies, p. 180. See Meteorological Diary . 
Roy, Colonel, comparifon between his and Sir George Shuckburgh’s rules for the 
meafurement of. heights with the barometer, p. 681. See Barometer . 
Royal Society. The reports of the committee appointed by the Royal Society for ex- 
amining the effect of lightning May 15, 1777, on the parapet-wall of the houfe of 
the Board of Ordnance at Pur fleet, p. 236. 313 — 317. S Lightning. A mete- 
orological journal for the year 1777, kept at their houfe, p. 574 — 600. See Tables. 
Rufs quafs, a common drink in Ruffia, how prepared, p. 62 7, 628. Their manner of 
making a better fort of it, p. 628, 629. Remarks on it, p. 630, 631. 
RuJJia , on the antifeptic regimen of the natives of, p. 622. See Antifeptic Regimen. 
Rutland , abftradt of a regifter of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon in 
Rutland, for the year 1777, p. 534. See Lyndon . 
Rye-bread, how made in Ruffia, p. 630, 631. 
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